Whilst a very busy Gavin has not had a chance to hunt for the missing play mat I decided to get a custom play mat.

Here in the UK the best place I’ve found to get one made is Patriot Games.

But first I needed a design to get printed.

I stumbled on the Medusa design (below) on Etzy for about £2.99. I’d give a link but it looks like the seller is currently not selling it or other designs.

I’ve liked Medusa as a character since I first saw her in a UK Fantastic Four reprint in the late seventies.

What sold me on this design apart from the incredible art, was the speech bubble “… and you shall pay in blood!”

I loved the sentiment for knocking out a character die.

On the Patriot Games website I went with their custom play mat service and select a 24” by 14” invisible stitched edge play mat.

Because of the large file size of the pdf with the design in I had to use a file sharing site and send the link to Patriot Games. It should be noted they don’t do iCloud. They do recommend using WeTransfer for this. Which is what I went with.

I was really impressed with the quality of the mat. My photo above really doesn’t do it justice.

With Tuesday evenings being a chance to regularly get Dice Masters to the table I needed an option I can use with others to play with.

I wanted to move away from the paper play mats with something less cramped.

So once again I turned to the custom play mat service of Patriot Games.

The official Wizkids pdf I have is perfect for my needs as it helps teach the game and remind players of the steps.

I had to convert the pdf to a jpg and rotate it so I could upload it to the Patriot Games site.

The design just about fits on a mouse pad. Although it is about 2 or 3 millimetres two wide on either side. But the bit lost isn’t too noticeable.

I got three mouse mats ordered with this design.

I’d liked to have had the life track a bit larger. But the mouse pad size wouldn’t allow it.

These aren’t meant to be a complete play mat, just a larger more robust version of the paper mats.

The quality of the mouse mats are really good. And I’m very happy how these turned out. Shame my photo is so poor.

If Gavin doesn’t find the play mat I will need to get another full size play mat. I’ll let Nathan choose the design for that. After all it’s mainly for him to use. So makes sense to let him choose it. But I’ll definitely use Patriot Games again for this. Which surely is the ultimate recommendation for them.

UPDATED 4/10/23: added better pictures taken last night at our Dice Masters session.